Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce Daughter’s Birth With Powerful Letter

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan welcomed their second child, daughter August, this month, with the proud parents sharing the news in a Facebook post on Monday with a sweet family photo.

The couple, who are also parents to nearly 2-year-old daughter Max, penned a letter to their newborn, writing about “the world we hope she grows up in.”

“Welcome to the world!” the letter began. “Your mom and I are so excited to see who you will become.”

“When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in — a world with better education, fewer diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality,” the post continued. “We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology, your generation should live dramatically better lives than ours, and we have a responsibility to do our part to make that happen. Even though headlines often focus on what’s wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We’re optimists about your generation and the future.”

Zuckerberg also shared his hopes for August’s childhood.

“You will be busy when you’re older, so I hope you take time to smell all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now,” he wrote. “I hope you read your favorite Dr. Seuss books so many times you start inventing your own stories about the Vipper of Vipp. I hope you ride the carousel with Max until you’ve tamed every color horse. I hope you run as many laps around our living room and yard as you want. And then I hope you take a lot of naps. I hope you’re a great sleeper. And I hope even in your dreams you can feel how much we love you.”Childhood is magical,” Zuckerberg noted. “You only get to be a child once, so don’t spend it worrying too much about the future. You’ve got us for that, and we’ll do everything we possibly can to make sure the world is a better place for you and all children in your generation.”

“August, we love you so much and we’re so excited to go on this adventure with you,” the letter concluded. “We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us. Love, Mom and Dad.”

Photo Credit: Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg